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		<title>Touchdown video seen round the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Kelley, Seattle Times columnist, reflects on Ike Ditzenberger, the 17-year-old high school football player with Down syndrome whose touchdown run was captured on video and circulated around the globe. At last count, the Youtube clip documenting Ike&#8217;s effort had gotten more than 2.36 million views. Writes Kelley: Ditzenberger&#8217;s touchdown, which he accomplished with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brad Hennefer highlights the possibilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Minnick, writing for the Cherry Hill [NJ] Courier-Post, profiles Brad Hennefer, the 21-year-old athlete who is the heart of the Brad Hennefer Golf for Life Foundation. The foundation. which introduces the game of golf to people with Down syndrome, was created in 2006 by Brad and his brother Bobby, mother Nancy and father Bob [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia high school uses sports to foster inclusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 03:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From WUSA9-TV, Washington, DC: At Pope Paul VI High School in Fairfax, VA, students with intellectual disabilities are included in activities throughout the school, participating on such athletic teams as wrestling and basketball. It&#8217;s all part of the school&#8217;s Options program, which started a little over ten years ago. The program brings trained professionals and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twins&#8217; new ballpark gets high praise for disability access</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Perhaps the most overlooked accolade among those piled on the Minnesota Twins&#8217; new ballpark is how well it caters to people with disabilities. Dominic Marinelli, a national consultant who has worked on a number of new stadiums, called Target Field &#8220;the most accessible one in the country.&#8221; &#8220;It sets a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maryland schools open sports to kids with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/26/maryland-sports-disabilities-28928/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Baltimore Sun: The organization governing school sports in Maryland has changed its rules to allow students with disabilities to participate alongside their peers in some cases. The decision, believed to be the first of its kind in the nation, follows a successful federal lawsuit by Paralympic athlete Tatyana McFadden, who four years ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paralympic Games set records, open doors</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/23/paralympics-open-doors-28877/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Toronto Star: Canadian athletes shattered records at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, bringing home 19 medals, ten of them gold. The unrivalled hero of the games was Canadian alpine skier Lauren Woolstencroft, whose five gold medals set a new record for female athletes in the Winter Paralympics. Canadian athletes said they were helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paralympics icon Hansen says Games have come a long way</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/19/paralympics-icon-28800/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Toronto Globe and Mail, Canadian athlete Rick Hansen says the Paralympic Games have made great progress since he won six medals for wheelchair racing in 1980 and 1984. He cites improvements in training, equipment and sponsorship, but acknowledges that &#8220;it&#8217;s going to be a difficult challenge&#8221; to bring broader acceptance to the Games. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shriver stresses humanity of people with intellectual disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/19/shriver-humanity-28779/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Washington Post profile of Tim Shriver, writer Manuel Roig-Franzia examines the Special Olympics chairman&#8217;s campaign to discourage language that makes fun at the expense of people with intellectual disabilities. Shriver has received apologies from President Obama, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and Bill O&#8217;Reilly (sort of) for &#8220;colloquial jabs about &#8216;retards&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Column: Paralympians deserve nationally broadcast finale</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/16/column-paralympic-tv-coverage-28760/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver Sun columnist Miro Cernetig reacts to the decision by CTV not to broadcast the opening ceremonies of the Paralympic Games across Canada. The Canadian television network subsequently reversed itself and broadcast the ceremonies, but only in British Columbia. Cernetig urges network executives to &#8220;rectify their unfortunate slight of the world&#8217;s Paralympians&#8221; by broadcasting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paralympic games aim to change perceptions</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/15/paralympic-games-change-perceptions-28750/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Vancouver Sun, Jeff Lee says the 2010 Winter Paralympic Games, which kicked off this weekend in Vancouver, is &#8220;an event that organizers say should help change the way people view others who are missing limbs or eyesight or have bodies that don&#8217;t function the way theirs do.&#8221; More than 60,000 people gathered [...]]]></description>
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